Shownotes
Your posture is more than “standing up straight”—it’s a living conversation between your brain, nervous system, and every move you make.
In this episode, chiropractor and human-performance expert Dr. Brett Hill breaks down how modern tech habits reprogram our bodies, why “pull your shoulders back” is bad advice, and the simple daily practices that restore balance, breath, and strength.
We dig into the hidden link between posture and headaches, fatigue, shallow breathing, vertigo, joint pain, and even confidence—and how five focused minutes a day can retrain your system. Dr. Hill also shares three starter drills (balance, head alignment, and pelvic tilt) and how his 10-week program helps you automate healthy movement patterns for the long haul.
Highlights
- Posture as a neurological system, not a pose
- Why workouts fail when your core stabilizers aren’t firing
- The kid/desk problem: attention, breathing, and phones
- Three foundational exercises you can start today
- How micro-changes add up to real, measurable results
Resources
- Free “3 Simple Exercises” videos: YourPostureProgram.com/videos
- Work with Dr. Hill: YourPostureProgram.com
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Most people think posture is just about standing up straight, but it's really about how your entire body communicates. Today, we will explore how to retrain that communication so you can finally feel balanced, strong, and pain-free again. Hi, and welcome to the UWorld Order Showcase Podcast, where we feature life, health, transformational coaches, and spiritual entrepreneurs stepping up to be the change they seek in the world.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'm your host, Jill Hart, the Coach's Alchemist, on a mission to help coaches and entrepreneurs
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Today, we are chatting with Dr. Brett Hill. Dr. Hill is a chiropractor, entrepreneur, and creator of YourPostureProgram.com, where he helps people transform their posture, mindset, and overall well-being from anywhere in the world.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Through decades of experience in clinical practice and human performance, he discovered that posture is a key neurological component that many overlook. It is deeply connected to how we think, feel, and show up in life.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Welcome to the show, Dr. Hill. It's great to have you with us.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Thanks, it's good to be here. Thanks for having me.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Alright, so let's ask you the big question, are you ready?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I'm ready.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Okay, what's the most significant thing, in your opinion, as individuals, we can do to make an impact on how the world is going?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Well… It relates to posture in a big way, doing the little things each day.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: either build good posture, or negatively affect our posture, and that's why I'm so passionate about it, because
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Posture is something that, we're affected in a huge way, day in, day out, from using our phones, technology, we can't get away from it. And it's affecting the world in a huge health way.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I know this isn't related to posture, but in some ways it is. The whole laptop generation of people leaving laptops on their chest.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Or their laps, and, without any protection, it's just like… So…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Like.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: We're sitting in bed, and we're just lounging with our laptops, our iPads, our phones right there, and…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And, hours on end, and we don't feel necessarily immediate effects, but time after time, day after day, the habits we create really build into impacts in our brain and nervous system, and our physical health, as well, and chronic problems that we see.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, and I would like to ask you, what's the biggest piece of advice you have heard bantered around that you know just doesn't work?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Well, and I think it's important if we go into understanding, you know, like the title says, is what actually is posture, but also defining what posture isn't is really important.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: you know, people have this understanding that, oh, I just need to set up straight. Oh, yeah, I just need to pull my shoulders back, they're pretty tight, so I just pull them back. That's probably the biggest misconception, but that's not… that's not what posture is. And posture, yeah, posture isn't just…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: you know, whether I'm sitting or standing with a straight spine.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: It's about the control of my nervous system and the way my whole body is functioning and controlling through that core system. It's… it's,
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Making sure we have that good communication, that good control of the body, so that we can…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: automatically and intentionally move and be healthy in a lot of other ways. So if things are off, and they've been compensating in little bits over a period of time, it's gonna be detrimental to the body, and we see
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::Dr. Brett Hill: It relate to things like chronic pain problems, chronic, breathing issues.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Because when we lose postural tone, we lose our…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: awareness of how we should be, positioned and moving day in, day out. We compensate, we don't breathe as deep, we might change our center of gravity, so balance issues can come into play, and vertigo problems. We see headache problems. There's a lot of health issues.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: That really tie back to…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: The posture, when it is out, when it is compensated.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it can affect in a negative way.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it goes really in-depth, you know, looking neurologically, I get excited about that stuff, but basically.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: the brain adapts to whatever we tell it to do. So if we're sitting for hours on end on that computer, whether it be a CEO, or a podcaster, or whatever it is.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: our bodies weren't designed to just sit there and let the chair do all the work to resist gravity. We're gonna adapt to that.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: That negatively impacts the posture system, or our physical system, which impacts that nervous system and brain.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And then it becomes a new normal. Hamstrings are now tight, hip flexors are tight, neck tension, shoulder tension, that becomes the new normal because our brain is just adapting to whatever we tell it to do.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And it gets really good at that. And so if we don't actually know what good posture should feel like, and it's not just pulling the shoulders back, or it's not just, oh yeah, I gotta sit up straight.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Because we've already compensated in that movement, and it's already been changed from where it should be to, now having a lack of awareness.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I like to use the example, if you've ever had, like, got a new watch, or for me, it was when I got married, and I didn't wear rings before, and so I now had this wedding ring on, and I would play with it, and I felt it for the first few weeks, months even.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: But then, my brain turned it off. It became just part of my body.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I would forget if I took it off to play a sport, sometimes I'd be like, oh, I forgot to put it back on.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And I didn't know… to me, that was the normal, whether it was on or off, I couldn't feel the difference. Our body just…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: naturally adapts to those things that we do, where at the beginning, we really felt it. And so, if we don't have an awareness of where our body actually should be, or what it should feel like, then we won't even know to correct it, or that there is a problem.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And that's one of the tough things with posture, it's all unconsciously controlled. We do it automatically.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: How does muscle tone and working out fit into all of this?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Yeah.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I love it when, we see clients that are weightlifters, or they work out all the time.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: But, oh, they're chronically getting injured, and they're like, I don't get it, you know, I'm fit, or, you know, I've done this weightlift lots, why did I injure myself this time? Or why do I keep having these same problems come back? Well.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Using those big muscle groups, and those are ones that are easy. If you want to build your biceps, just grab a weight and bend that arm. You can feel, you know exactly the movement you need to do. That's consciously controlled.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: But, if our core system, or our postural system, has been compromised because it's adapted to the computer lifestyle.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Even doing that lift with our arm, we might not stabilize the core system and that spine properly.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And it has to automatically support that system to generate power through our arms or our legs, and so we're more prone for… for injury, or the more we work out with improper posture and weak firing of that postural system.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: The more we're either gonna get injured, or just adapt to those compensations that we've built into in our posture from working at the computer all day, we carry those over to working out in the gym, or going for that run, or riding that bike.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Because we don't know any different. And so, it wears us down, and we're more prone for a tear or other injury, even though we're doing our best to try to be healthy, strong, and fit.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it can be really detrimental when we don't stabilize the right things properly, and don't have that body awareness. So it's really key to gain
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Body control and body… body, muscle.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Tone and strength where it needs to in that foundational support.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Just like building a house, you gotta have that foundation strong and steady before you start building the walls, or else everything's just gonna start cracking and faltering later on, and that's the same thing with our posture system. It's one of the first things we develop as a child before we can have coordination and movement through our limbs or our legs and things.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: What do you think about schools and the whole idea of taking young kids and making them sit in desks?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Periods of time.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: You know, and it's interesting, because studies have shown that when kids are more active, when they sit on an exercise ball, they're more attentive, they do better in test scores.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: It's… yeah, there's a lot there. It's a structured system for ease and for…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Getting our… the teaching model across, but…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it's not the most effective way, and we see these huge amounts of neurodivergencies with ADHD and other things, just… just exploding over the last 10 to 15 years, 20 years with… there's lots to that, but one of the things that
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::Dr. Brett Hill: We see with posture, everybody… everybody has a device nowadays, and it's younger and younger ages in schools, where
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::Dr. Brett Hill: We're starting to see a change, where schools are saying, okay, no phones in the classroom, but a lot of times, you know, you see a kid slouched in that chair, they're looking down at their phone, or looking down at their schoolwork.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: They're not getting any activation to the healthy areas of the brain, their frontal lobe, which is really coordinated with postural tone, movement.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Sensory awareness, that shuts down, and it lets the… the chair do the work in holding us upright. It shuts down the breathing and the oxygenation to the brain and nervous system, because
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::Dr. Brett Hill: With poorer posture, we're not breathing as well, so our attention is less, we're gonna retain less, and it's… it's…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Not ideal. And so, doing little things, and this is where, in our program, we get people to do… start with just 5 minutes a day, doing some simple exercise things can make big differences over time. So, in the classroom, if kids were to sit on a, like, a little squishy ball or something where they can move a little bit, we'll actually make little
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::Dr. Brett Hill: improvements in their postural tone, in their nervous system, to learn faster and adapt better. So, it'd be nice to see some more of those incorporations. They are in some areas of the world, in schools, but definitely can have a positive impact in our youth to develop those habits over time and years, and see big differences.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it would seem to me that
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: The younger that you start helping people incorporate core strengthening exercises into their daily habits, and just into the way that they
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: are growing as children, the better that population is going to be as adults, and probably more healthy, because
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: as… You've mentioned along the way here, your… your posture really dictates to everything else in your body.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: how… how it feels, and how it's going to actually function. Like, if you have bad posture, it's gonna mess up your guts.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And your heart, and your lungs, because you're not able to, like… you don't… you're not…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: postured in the correct position to let your lungs expand. We're a society of really shallow breathers, and we have all kinds of sleep apnea problems, because people don't
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: have good posture, and so they're not taking deep breaths, and then your brain starts to go, because you're not oxygenating enough. It's just like…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I can see how all of these pieces fit together. We're not just, like, an arm or a foot.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: You know, Angel, that's one of the…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Exactly. That's one of the reasons we… if I go back a little bit to, you know, posture, and even core, we use this term a lot of, like, oh yeah, strengthen the core. Well, that's not going and doing crunches, that's not going and just, okay, I've got a…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I do a bunch of planks. While those are good, in a sense, when we're looking at the foundational structures here, posture is so much more than that. It's these small muscles that
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Can be tricky to feel and know how to control, and they are the core, the back, the abdominals, deeper inside, glutes, all of these smaller muscles around these things that need to stabilize us and hold us upright against gravity.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: If we don't know what those… or we don't use them, we'll lose that control. And if we don't know what that should feel like, we won't be able to correct that. And at an earlier age, the earlier we start connecting to this, the more we're going to adapt in healthy ways. And you're right, you know.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it affects all aspects of the body. And we found that, that's why we developed this program. Posture sounds simple, and there's so much to it. In the neurology training that I do, and one of the secrets
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::Dr. Brett Hill: a lot of chiropractor clinics and things won't tell you or want you to know that I'm really…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: kind of…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: was turned off initially when I graduated was, I don't want to be a system where it's just in, out, quick visit, and then come back 3 times a week, twice a week, and we'll see you forever. I'm like, we're trying to get people better. Just like a pill, you can take that, and maybe your headache will go away, or the tension, but your problem
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::Dr. Brett Hill: hasn't gone away, you've just covered your symptoms. Well, if that adjustment helps, but the problems keep coming back, there's a reason, because the body's adapting to something…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: causing that poor effect in the body, let's address at the root of things. And the more we looked at the nervous system and brought it down into the root causes, we just kept seeing
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::Dr. Brett Hill: the postural weakness at the root of a lot of the problems that we saw and that we treat, as we created this program to help more people worldwide.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: and get better, and empower them to not be reliant on the medication, not be reliant on the adjustment, or the stretch for the shoulder, but really empower you to feel, what should my body be holding, so that when I do that workout, I'm not injuring that shoulder. Or when I'm sitting.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: doing my work, I'm not causing a headache or causing these problems.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: that will affect your ability to do things later on in life as it continues on that pathway. So, it really, can be simple little things. Like I said, 5 minutes a day is where you start to see big changes, in these habits and in our health.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And it can be as simple as increasing our breathing, decreasing the fatigue that we have, the brain fog, because we're not taking a deep breath, because we're not in good postural tone. We stimulate the stress muscles of our
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::Dr. Brett Hill: our traps, because we're constantly leaning forward into the computer, or holding a phone, and we don't have that awareness to support our body. So, yeah, those 5 minutes a day, start by making those changes, and you'll be amazed at the changes it can impact in your health long-term.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I'm…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I would presume, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that these… these exercises that you talk about, and you actually have some videos that we'll share the link to here in a little bit, to walk people through how to do them through…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Simple things that you can do that will impact how you actually
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: hold yourself in your body. A lot of times, I think people look at chiropractors and think, oh, bones, but your bones are held in place by the muscles, and the fascia and all of these other little things that you didn't learn about in school, or maybe you did because you went to chiropractor school, but
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I didn't. And…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: we just are so unaware of how much effect they can have on us to make us just feel better every day. When you're not having headaches or…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Shortness of breath, or, you know, just all the things that happen because our posture's bad. Even fit problems.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Exactly, exactly. And you're right, like… and it comes more into the nervous system. So, our muscles do… they can't… our bones can't move without the muscle system.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And our muscle system can't activate or know what to do without the nervous system control. And so it goes back into, the more we look at the phone, the more we lean into the computer.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And the more we sit, the more our brain is adapting to whatever we tell it to do. And so, if we're not telling it to stand upright, to be tall, to move around, to lift things in a certain way, or control this muscle to stabilize, it's going to, lead to other
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::Dr. Brett Hill: problems, chronic pain symptoms, headaches, lots of things. And so, if people are tired of dealing with those, if they are like, yeah, I've been here, I've been there, you know, I just… I always have this problem, and I'm just gonna have to live with it. If you're… if you hear yourself saying that to yourself.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: It doesn't need to be that way. Making little changes, and paying attention to, yeah, you know what, I haven't moved in the last hour. These simple exercises we give people, one of them is just balance. Most people don't challenge their balance system very much. That's one of the leading causes of death as we get older, is just falls.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: falling.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And, you know, that happens over time, as we lose these patterns. One of the things I can tell a lot of times from the assessment we do in this program, we'll take a picture… have people take a picture and send it to us through an app, where it's very secure, and we analyze it, and we do a video call like this to go over the results. And so if we see, like.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Their feet are really wide and turned out.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I can tell that they are collapsing in their posture system because their brain is already adapting to try to make it easier for them to stand, but because they've lost some of that core tone, they're being wider in their stance because their balance system isn't as efficient. They don't know that, they're not thinking that, but it's just a subtle adaptations.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: So, balance, automatically, if we think of being tall and balancing.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: It's a great way to just wake up that system, it fuels our healthy area of our brain, the frontal lobe, tons.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And it kind of wakes things up, allows us to take a deep breath. So, one of the exercises we give people in those 3 free exercises we encourage people to start with, that you can get at the end as a gift to your listeners, is just that. I say, stand against a wall or a doorframe to help you sense your hips, your shoulders, and your head.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Because we don't want to train that balance system in an improper postural
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::Dr. Brett Hill: positioning. So, use the wall or the door frame to help guide you at the beginning of where things should be. And it might be surprising, we get people try to do this, and they're like, oh man, I can't even get my head to the wall, because they've adapted so far forward.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: that that's very uncomfortable, or they have to, like, look up at the ceiling to touch the wall. That's how much they've compensated, and yet…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: The body doesn't see, hey, this is a major problem, until we challenge them of where they should be.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And so that's one of the first things we give them. We also focus on head movement. Most people think, oh yeah, if it takes my posture, I gotta sit up straight.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: What they should be thinking is, where's my head position in relation to my body?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: As the head goes forward, the muscles at the top of our neck will get tighter so that we still look straight. Otherwise, we would start looking down at the ground. And so that…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: can chronically get tight, and it tenses up our shoulders, then our hips go forward to compensate for that. And so now we have tightness in the lower back, chronic achiness and pain.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And so we… we start with one of these exercises, just in lengthening the head, bringing it back over the shoulders, and if done properly, people will start to feel small muscles of their lower back engaging that they maybe didn't realize were even there before.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: So those two things, and then the third thing we get people to focus on at the beginning here, and again, these little activities seem small, but if you're consistent in doing them 5 minutes a day.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Boy, the changes can start to lead to big things, and just maintaining it.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: But, the third thing we work on is the pelvic tilt. So learning to bring the hips back and control through breathing, taking a deep breath, letting our shoulders relax, breathing out through the…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: through the belly, and controlling some deeper muscles through our abdominals or pelvic floor muscles. And those are better described and easier to follow if you get those videos. We'll have descriptions, but
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::Dr. Brett Hill: As simple as that, trying to connect your brain to the body and how it's moving can be a great starting point for people to make some changes that will really help them.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I have another question for you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: In addition to just practicing these three core exercises, will it help people who are suffering from hip pain or knee pain, which is
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: To me, also an indicator that so many people are having posture problems, and as they get older, because they've had poor posture, and they've had to compensate by moving differently.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: These joints get worn out.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Definitely.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: when our body compensates, and… and it can be from previous injuries, or even when you're sitting, I mean, I'd ask you or any of your listeners if you're driving in the car or sitting right now, are you sitting straight? Are you sitting even on both… both butt cheeks? You know, are we leaning to one side? Are we,
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::Dr. Brett Hill: have these patterns, we might not realize, oftentimes, it's always to one side, and we fall into these patterns of weakness and compensation. Now, when we use our posture system, it keeps that awareness of, oh, I was shifting. If I use these muscles, it has to straighten me out.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And so, it'll lead to wearing out the hip or the knee faster, or, you know, we walk slightly off, and that builds into tightness in certain muscles and weakness in other ones, and it wears out those joints or causes,
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::Dr. Brett Hill: wear and tear, pain syndromes that can happen. And then what we see a lot is people
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::Dr. Brett Hill: our other professionals are just treating that pain area. Say, oh, well, you've just got this plantar fasciitis, or whatever it is that we need to address. But if they don't change how they're walking because their postural tone is weak, and they're shifting to one side, or compensating so much.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it's eventually gonna come back, or lead to… to other problems in the knee, or other places. So…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: There's a huge connection with that, for sure.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Interesting.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I woke up one day with a ganglion cyst on the side of my foot, and so all of this is really, like, very…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it's really good information for me, and I do notice, as we're sitting here having this conversation, my head tilts this way a lot more than that way.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And your body will fall into the pattern of comfort. You know, if you're right-handed, you're gonna reach forward and use the mouse more, which means you're gonna lean slightly, and…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Again, it's not going to be that one time you worked on the computer, now it messed everything up. It's the day-in, day-out. If you're right-handed, you're gonna use your phone, which means you're gonna pull that forward and look down, and that builds this pattern of shifting and adapting
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::Dr. Brett Hill: But at the expense of something, as we build into these patterns over time, and we don't even know, why did I wake now with this pain? Well, that problem has been coming on for a long period of time. Our brain and body has been adapting, but it can only adapt so much.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Until it says, okay, we need… we gotta… we gotta change something here, and that's where the pain comes in.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And that's what we connect people to start recognizing and sensing, hey, look, let's… let's address the root of things and this foundational support, and if you get really strong with it, it'll make a big difference. So, those three exercises is the best starting point.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: The posture in our program that we take people through is a 10-week program. We really build into some cool, functional,
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Strengthening exercises near the end that are…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: much more difficult than at the beginning. At the beginning, we need to connect to, like I said, the head, the shoulders, the core, in separate ways. By the end, we want that automated, where as soon as you lift your head, you're firing your core, your shoulders, your balance system, and it all connects…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: at the same time to just stabilize the body. Whether I'm standing, whether I'm lifting a box, doing a squat workout, sitting in a chair or the car, it doesn't matter. If you use these muscles with anything you do, it will support that system and have good control and stability.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love that.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, do you work with people? I know you said you work with people all over the world, so you do it online. Is it one-on-one? Is it a group program? How does all that look for people?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Ria, well, we… we do have…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: We had the option for group calling and one-on-one. Right now, we've made it to just…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: we're actually changing it a little bit to start with a bit deeper consultation with people, because we want to make it even more impactful. So we've gone back to just the one-on-one.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: calls and training. Everybody has little differences in past histories and adaptations that they need to do, and we just wanted to be as effective and impactful for people.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And so…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: each call, we check the form on these exercises. So if we were to take you through it, we would get you to do this assessment first.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And then we can also do a… we want to do a consult to go over, like.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: what are all the things you're dealing with? Now, That's important, too, because…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: If we need to refer you out to someone locally, we can do that. But it also gives us an idea of, hey, these are going to impact how you're going to respond. This helps us know patterns, or
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::Dr. Brett Hill: traumas that you may have had, or whatever it is, impacting that health, because it's… it's… yes, it's great to have good posture, but we care about… we want to get you people feeling better, confident, empowered to take care of their health.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And so…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: going through all that can be more impactful, and then we'll take you through this program. Once a week, 10 weeks, we have a video call to say, hey, how are you doing on that? We're gonna tweak this a bit to help you feel that. We're gonna adapt this for you to help you feel that better. And you get
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::Dr. Brett Hill: follow those videos until the next week. We add to it. It's never all just the same. And then at the end, we're gonna have you retake these pictures, and it's amazing to see the transformation, and that happens in just 10 weeks. People are surprised, because it's micro-changes each week, if they're consistent.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And they feel, yeah, I'm more aware of this and that, but when they see, like.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: the measurements that we take, they're like, wow, I didn't realize I had made that big of a change, or it had changed that much. That was huge. And it's really cool, and they can see that in how it impacts their health and their life.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's amazing what… Just small things done consistently, how big of an effect they can have over…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: a relatively short time. You know, when it comes to your body, your body An amazingly adaptable… biological mechanism.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Exactly. And that's the thing, it is so amazing at adapting, it's adaptable for good.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And also for bad. And that's where a lot of our chronic problems today have become. We are adapting to sitting so much, stress, when we're go-go-go traveling for work, this or that.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: We're constantly on devices, stress, we're holding that in. That stress affects how we hold our posture, how we hold our body, how we sense, what we're doing.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: So, having control of that, you know, if someone wants to feel more confident.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: You know, stand taller, breathe deeper, be… have that power.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: arms out. Yeah.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: You know, for those people, when they say, have your power pose, really, just have good posture, and hold that all the time. Imagine how you'd feel all the time versus just when you need it at the most important time of presenting, or whatever it might be. So, yeah, it adapts for good, but for bad, depending on whatever we do.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it seems like if people will just do these… these…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: three exercises that you're… you went over that, just to start with, if you incorporate it with your whole family.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I mean, you don't have to hide in your bedroom and do it by yourself. The more people you can get involved in it, the happier the whole family becomes, because they all start feeling better. And…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Ultimately, you know, when you're not in pain, you feel good.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: 100%, and the more people you can impact to do this, and they can start to feel, you know what? I didn't realize I was weak in this, or I didn't realize my balance was so poor.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it's bringing that awareness. Now we feel that need, or we recognize, I need to change. And that's a great starting point. And so, yeah, the more people you can incorporate and encourage to move, to be healthy, and to do these exercises, the better off you're gonna be. And it doesn't have to be crazy. The reason we designed this, to make it simple.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I have a very busy, busy life. I found it was difficult to…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: exercise and do all the things I wanted to do. I had 4 little kids starting this practice, many years ago, and…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: I'm really, intentional with body movement, and how can I strengthen myself to maintain a healthy spine, adjusting, and doing other things.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And from understanding how the body works, developing these, brain awareness and body awareness through these exercises.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: when I'm working away on something and I'm feeling fatigued, I'll go and I'll just do one of these exercises, and it just wakes my brain up, wakes my body up to…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: to feel alive again, strength, and healthy, versus that brain fog and that fatigue. And so, these things, if we just do a little bit here and there, you can do one of them in the morning, and one of them while you're waiting for your coffee to brew, and one of them in the evening, and incorporate them into our daily life.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it's… makes a bigger impact than we would… when we would imagine. We don't necessarily need to go to the gym for an hour to see big improvements. While I do recommend people are healthy and working out, this doesn't replace just getting activity and exercise in a general way.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: This is about affecting our everyday movements, our everyday how we hold and carry ourselves, and how we feel about ourselves. And so when we can change that, it can help spark better health.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: movements and activities and exercise things.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And we're just… beings that were designed to move. Our lymphatic system, which moves your waist around and out of your body.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it… it doesn't have a pump mechanism. You need to move in order to get that to… to move out of your system. And if you have better posture, you're going to want to move, versus…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Poor posture, you hurt, you just want to, like, hunker down, and then you're not moving, and then all those toxins start building up, and it's just a big, vicious cycle.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: there is so much to it, that it can be all related back to, look, we're gonna improve the posture system, it's going to affect that, it's going to improve that lymphatic flow, it's going to help you be aware, because
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::Dr. Brett Hill: it empowers you to move in a healthier way. It empowers you to, you know, for myself, I'm always at a standing desk, and when I feel myself lean or get fatigued, I'll do some balance to reset, and then maybe sit if I need to for a bit, but
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Being aware of what my body's doing versus allowing it to just adapt to the environment and have, those negative health effects come in.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Whether it be with the anxiety that happens. You know, when we activate our posture system and actually learn to relax our shoulders, I get so many people say, I didn't realize I was holding my shoulders up all the time. Like, I never let them go.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: It's because that becomes the new normal. We don't know what our body's even doing anymore.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: And so this connects our brain to our body, help us take control back into our health.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love this. So people can reach you by going to yourpostureProgram.com, and they can find those videos at yourpostureeprogram.com forward slash videos, correct?
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Definitely, that's correct. Yep, from there, then once they get those videos, if they want, they can also book just a short consult, and, it's kind of a bonus we give to your listeners if they want to
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::Dr. Brett Hill: see, you know, what's going on with them, and if they would be worthwhile to do a longer consult. But that is the best way to connect, and we'd love to help anybody that is in need of taking their life back, their health back, and restoring that postural structure.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love that. And… to really… just…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Correcting your posture could save you so much money in terms of going to the doctor for things that really are related to… you've been holding your body wrong for so long.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Exactly.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Two minutes every day.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Yeah, yeah, we're really big here on empowering people. You know, in our clinic, we… people say, wow, I've never had an exam like that. You know, they don't spend that much time, because we're trying to empower you, so we don't need to see you all the time, and we want to…
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::Dr. Brett Hill: prevent further injuries from happening in the future for you. So.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: You know, you mentioned something with your foot, if you're dealing with anything, like most people are, most people have these chronic things that we live with. We can live with pain until it starts preventing the time we spend with our kids, or our ability to go for a bike ride, or do what we want to do. Now we go and address it.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: But, if we can,
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::Dr. Brett Hill: take care of that before it becomes too big of a problem. You're gonna save a ton of time and money on fixing bigger problems and… and not getting even at the root of it most of the time.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, I totally hear you. Thank you so much for joining us today, Dr. Hill. This has been a great conversation.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Thanks for having me, I really appreciate it, I get passionate about this, love helping people, and thanks to you and your listeners today for listening, and hopefully it was helpful.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: helped me a ton. Good, good.
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::Dr. Brett Hill: Love it. That's what we want.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: To learn more about Dr. Hill and explore his Your Posture program, please visit yourpostureProgram.com forward slash videos to find the 3 Simple Exercises videos to impact your posture.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We'll be sure to put those links in the show notes below. Thank you for tuning in with us today.
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